Vojska.net
Promote Your Page Too
New CRO_DESC missing in the game.
After coup, fate of Kingdom of Yugoslavia was sealed, Hitler had decided to eliminate it from map of Europe, it was quickly agreed to divide large part of territory amongst its neighbors: Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria. Serbia would come under German and Bulgarian occupation leaving only Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina as undecided since neither Italy nor Hungary wanted to take control of such large area with hostile population. German hopes of creating puppet under leader of Croatian largest party Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and current Yugoslav vice-premier Vladko Macek thus insuring loyalty of population have failed after Macek refused twice to discuss anything with Nazi regime. Alternative was found in Ante Pavelic leader of prewar terrorist organization Ustashe which was supported by Mussolini's fascist Italy in hopes of destabilizing Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Things moved quickly from there on, the same day German tanks entered Zagreb April 10th 1941, ustasha leader in country, former Austro-Hungarian colonel Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed Independent State of Croatia, Ustashe agents across Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina attempted to destabilize country and carry out coups in cities and military units. Kvaternik's own brother Milutin was arrested and shot in one such coup attempted in Crikvenica. Ante Pavelic left Italy for Zagreb and arrived on April 15th and immediately took over role of Poglavnik, leader, and formed first government. Initial thrill of new independent state quickly disappeared amongst population as Ustashe regime showed its true nature, repression and implementation of German style racial laws forced many to join resistance which quickly grow in strength to one of the strongest in Europe.
Corrected YUG_DESC (Paradox has tons of errors).
Already during World War One in 1917 the founding of a south Slavic state was agreed upon. However Croats, Montenegrins and Slovenians only accepted Alexander I as ruler of the 'Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenians' under the pressure of Italian threats of annexation. The first constitution of 1921 laid down Serbian predominance so that the various religions and state traditions doomed the first Yugoslavian state. The Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) boycotted the parliament in Belgrade and demanded a federalization. Even their inclusion in the government of Nikola Pasic in 1925 could not overcome the differences. On 20 June 1928, Montenegrin representative of the Serbian People's Radical Party Punisa Racic fired shots in Yugoslav parliament killing HSS delegates Duro Basariceka and Pavle Radic and badly wounding Ivan Pernar, Ivan Granda and leader of HSS Stjepan Radic who will die on August 8th. King Alexander I suspended the constitution and introduced a monarchical dictatorship in 1929 that was to enforce integration top down. The renaming of the kingdom into Yugoslavia and the establishment of nine geographically defined administrative entities (Banovina) helped little as the Serbs continued to dominate the political life and Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria took advantage in sponsoring radical ultra-nationalist movements Croat Ustasha and Macedonian VMRO. Ustashe terrorist attacks launched from Hungary and Italy resulted in even stronger repression by state against Croats. The assassination of King Alexander I in October 1934 in Marseilles carried out by VMRO assassin with Ustashe help and Italian backup brought the fragile country to the brink of civil war for the second time. After several governments power finally stabilized under Milan Stojadinovic which carried out pro-German politics until he was replaced by Dragisa Cvetkovic. Cvetkovic finally calmed Croatian problem by sign agreement with Radic successor Vladko Macek creating banovina Croatia. Continuing economic dependency on Germany together with defeat of France finally forced the government into signing Tripartite pact, British sponsored coup sealed it fate despite new government claims it will honour the pact and on April 6th 1941 twelve day invasion of Yugoslavia begun.